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FILMS THAT HAVE MOVED ME

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ACTOR Delroy Lindo

MALCOLM X (1992)

A grand, epically scaled period film, spanning multiple decades. Obviously, it therefore necessitated different styles of costumes, automobiles and physical landscapes, etc, which ordinarily, the budget of such a film would accommodate. Not so, . The film was made on a ‘fixed’ budget, NOT AT ALL commensurate with any other period film of similar magnitude and

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